Deputy Leader's Backers Attack Istanbul Station

Dozens of attackers raked a television station with gunfire today after the station broadcast a report critical of Deputy Prime Minister Tansu Ciller. No one was injured.

The station, Independent Flash TV, broadcast pictures of broken cameras and windows full of bullet holes after the assault.

''As I was preparing for the sports broadcast, a crowd came into the studio, pulled out guns and started shooting in the air,'' said Turkan Voralr, a reporter.

Yalcin Cakir, the station's news editor, told viewers that about 50 men with handguns took part in the attack.

He said they were shouting angrily, condemning an interview shown on Thursday with a prominent criminal, Alaattin Cakici, who said Mrs. Ciller's husband had offered him a good price on the purchase of a bank and a television station if he would broadcast propaganda favoring Mrs. Ciller, a former Prime Minister.